Developer Scored Huge Own Goal By Deleting Almost Every Football Fan In Europe
The Register, Monday, April 21st, 2025
Fiddling with the production database - what could possibly go wrong?
Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of "Who, Me?" - The Register's weekly column that shares your stories of dropping the ball at work but somehow recovering for at least an honorable draw.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Pete" who told us of the time he worked for a news and sport website that faithfully reported the result of every major sporting event, and plenty of minor ones too.
"The information for each football match contained lots of statistical data, including the attendance," Pete told Who, Me? All the info was stored in what he described as "a fairly straightforward MySQL database, with unsurprising names."